Waze Social GPS, Maps & Traffic

By Waze Inc.

Description

Waze is the world's largest community-based traffic and navigation app. Join drivers in your area who share real-time traffic & road info to save time, gas money, and improve daily commuting for all.

Just by driving with Waze open, you're already contributing tons of real-time traffic information to your local community. You can also actively report accidents, police traps and other hazards you see on the road. Get road alerts along your route and find the cheapest gas prices around you shared by the community. Plus, you can add friends, send locations or keep others posted on your arrival time.

- Live routing based on community driven, real-time traffic & road info- Community reported alerts including accidents, hazards, police traps, road closures, and more- Turn-by-turn voice guided navigation- Live maps, consistently edited and updated by Waze community map editors- Automatic rerouting as conditions change on the road - Send your ETA & real-time drive to update those you’re meeting- Learns your frequent destinations, commuting hours, and preferred routes- Find the cheapest gas station on your route - Add information on local places and businesses- Add Facebook friends and sync Contacts- See friends’ ETA when driving to the same destination- One tap navigation to Facebook & Calendar events- Earn points as you contribute road info and climb the ranks in your community

Waze is all about contributing to and benefiting from the common good, so hop on board and get involved!

Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Waze will automatically shut down if you run it in the background and haven't driven for a while.

Learn more about the Waze privacy policy, including what information is accessed and how it is used. With Waze, you have full control over your privacy settings. http://www.waze.com/legal/privacy/

Screenshots

Customer Reviews

Best navigation app period

by
HStBaller

I have tried a bunch of other navigation apps to avoid traffic and this is by far the best. However is does take some getting used to as the interface is different from most other apps. Also, for some suggestions it would be easier I think if when you were driving it would say make your second left as opposed to in 900 feet turn left because I don't really have a good feel for a distance like that. It's hard in a city when there are so many turns and people to gauge a distance like that. Also the app needs a little bit of a human element to it. Sometimes it will give me directions and I'll be taking side streets to avoid traffic but it will tell me to drive across a very busy street that doesn't have a light to get across it. Or you'll make a left then an immediate right having to get across multiple lanes. It's a little tough sometimes to do that so I suggest while that might be the fastest route to adjust things and avoid frequent turns that are close together. Other than all this the app is really great and really helps a lot. It's also fun to get points and stuff. Oh yeah I almost forgot make the search feature better. Right now I search and find the address on the Internet and then paste it into the waze app for directions because the search isn't great or very intuitive. Keep up the good work guys.

Great App, but there's always room for improvement

by
WhatsTheWorder

I love Waze! It does exactly what it is supposed to and is definitely a life saver when it comes to needing a heads up on road and travel conditions. However, I still think some features have been overlooked or underdeveloped. I travel a lot. Because of that, my home state changes pretty often. Half the problem? The app doesn't give me a way to see my current home state or a warning when it changes. The other half of the problem? There is no easy way to fix it. I found a forum posting one time telling me how to contact them and have it permanently set, but the forums aren't always user friendly and I can't find the same post. Actually, that's a second problem. There is no easy way to contact Waze--through the app or the website--unless I'm missing something. Being able to contact developers when there is a problem is crucial to the user experience. Last thing I take issue with is that the voice commands don't always play. I think they don't play if the app is on the foreground of my phone, but because I'm constantly changing the open app on my phone, the inconsistency sometimes throws me for a loop. The app has it's downfalls, but they aren't critical points in my opinion. If you want an app that will give you the most up to date information about speeding traps, constructions zones, and traffic jams, Waze has your back!

Best App Ever!

by
Farm lady 39

I am living in São Paulo, Brasil and this is my lifeline and a gift from God! The traffic here is worse than LA in rush hour. Waze tracks all the users and gets me home fast! Even when the cell phone reception dies it still knows where I am and directs me home (it becomes like a normal GPS). It won't track traffic but it does keep me from turning down the wrong way of a one way street. It even shows where the speed cameras are! It has also saved my husband whose car broke down at night in the city. All he had to do was send me a waze location and I was able to drive right to him! He didn't have to get out of his car, find a street sign or address or try to talk to someone in portuguese. Just a click of a button and away I went!! The only hint I can give to Waze is to allow users in the area to mark bad neighborhoods. Brasil is famous for their favelas (slums) and they are definitely NOT for driving through, but Waze will try to take me through a bad one on the way to my kid's school. It's fast, no doubt, only because no one is stupid enough to drive through them! But they are streets and waze knows that. So I think you need an option for avoiding highways, bridges, toll booths and one for AVOIDING favelas!!Otherwise keep up the good work and to all that make waze a part of their life. It makes everyone's life a little brighter!